Miscellany

The Abundant Life. In Astoria, N.Y., Mrs. Dominick Rondi was excused from jury duty so that she could go to Manhattan and select the prizes she had won on a radio quiz show.

Name & Address. In Oklahoma City, police decided that the man they were looking for was Crawford Sleeper, who in burglarizing an apartment exchanged his pants for a better pair, left behind in the pockets a letter addressed to himself and a withholding-tax statement.

Priorities. In Winnetka, Ill, Village President William S. Warfield wrote a letter asking Congress not to spend $316,000 for a new Winnetka post-office building, because "under present economic conditions," Government funds should be "limited to ... projects which are absolutely essential and cannot be postponed."

Coign of Vantage. In Hawthorne, Calif., police caught up with the motorist who had been seen to stuff a small boy into the trunk of his car, learned that the boy, his son, was trying to locate a rear-end rattle.

March of Science. In Manhattan, a businessman returning from a trip to Europe reported that a French perfume company had agreed to manufacture an essence which, blended into a doll's skin, would make it smell "like a baby."

To Catch a Thief. In Dallas, after F. G. Maloney complained to the law that he and his wife had been robbed of several thousand dollars in a tourist court, police learned that Maloney, alias Curly Malone, had gotten the cash in a New Orleans holdup.

Station Break. In York, Pa., convinced that radio station WORK's broadcasts were interfering with the electrical gadgets in his house, Holmes Gibson walked five miles in the rain to the transmitting station, interrupted broadcasting for a quarter-hour by pulling the switches.

Cleanup. In Chicago, police cracked down on merchants selling unlicensed cap pistols.

Two Times Two. In Atlantic City, at a meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Dr. Frederick C. Redlich, commenting on experiments he and two colleagues had conducted with 83 subjects and 36 cartoons, said that any man who laughs loudly at a mother-in-law joke probably does not like his mother-in-law.

Prescription. In Albuquerque, Refugio Salindo, charged with possession of $2,000 worth of marijuana, explained to the court that he used the stuff only "to sprinkle in my bath water because I heard it was good for my arthritis."

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